This is the million dollar question, and so many people come to me with the concern that they just don’t have the time.

Maybe you’ve heard this idea before: It’s not really about time, it’s about priority.

I really want to dig into that idea.

“You find time for the things you prioritize, and the things you don’t prioritize or that you don’t think really matter fall to the end of the list”

I want to dive into priorities, but I also want to honor where you are in this season of your life.

On mindset:

You can have all the tips and strategies, but if you’re not able to shift your mindset about how you’re thinking about wellness and health those strategies will get you nowhere.

What’s missing in wellness is this mindset piece.

Everyone wants to give you a plan or program, and if you’ve found yourself struggling to find success in them, chances are it’s mindset that’s missing.

Here are three ways that you can shift your mindset so that you can find time for wellness:

1 | Identify what it means to be healthy for you.

This is harder than it seems!

At the end of my interviews with guests on the Feel Good Effect, I ask my guest what health really means.

Think about what it really means to you.

Ask yourself:

How do you define health?

How do you want to feel?

“If we don’t know that that’s what we’re working for, it’s so easy to get off track and to feel completely lost and not know how to come back”.

2 | Know your why.

If we don’t know why we’re doing something, it’s very unlikely that we’ll be able to sustain it.

Why wellness? Why prioritize? Why make the tradeoff to make the space to take care of yourself?

I like to use “when I’m” statements to fill in the blanks:

When I’m physically well, I can…

When I’m emotionally well, I can…

When I’m mentally well, I can…

Consider how when you’re well, the things you can do for yourself, and the things you can do for other people.

When I’m physically well, I can do… for myself, and… for others.

When I’m emotionally well, I can do… for myself, and… for others.

When I’m mentally well, I can do… for myself, and… for others.

This helps create a bigger picture of what health means to you and feels like for you.

“Flipping the script on goal setting toward a feeling, toward a version and a life that you really want, brings so much more clarity and purpose, so that when it gets difficult in the daily grind to prioritize that time, you know why you’re doing it”

3 | Know your wellness personality barriers.

If you haven’t already, take the Wellness Personality Quiz here to figure out which wellness personality type you’re working with and what barriers you might come across.

The three high-level barriers that might come up are: perfectionism and all-or-nothing thinking, comparison and jumping from thing to thing, and guilt and overwhelm.

Chances are, you have a combo of these factors.

If you know the areas that you’re challenged by, you can really hone in on how to leverage them into strengths.

On wellness strategies:

If one of these resonates with you and you know you’re an obliger (from Gretchen Rubin’s four tendencies, listen to the episode to learn more), send this episode to a friend to have that accountability you know helps you.

Here are 9 strategies:

1 | Do an honest audit of your actual week.

Do an honest audit of your week, not the perfect week you wish you had, but your actual week.

Evaluate how you spend your time to look for pockets of 10 minutes.

Find a strategy that you can actually do for 7 days, and look for pockets of 10 minutes.

Maybe you can get up 10 minutes earlier, maybe it’s between activities, maybe you’re waiting in line or in traffic, or maybe it’s scrolling through a social media feed.

As you go through your day, just bring awareness to these pockets of time without judgement.

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